"Space is blue and birds fly through it" — HN submission

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 19:08:43 GMT

Space is blue and birds fly through it (a.k.a. Relational quantum mechanics)

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"Space is blue and birds fly through it" — mentioned by phayes

Sat, 03 Mar 2018 08:36:39 GMT

"Objective wavefunction collapse" is not a good "aka" for the CI. There is a great deal of objectivity in it but there's an essential element of subjectivity (shared by neo-CI descendants of the CI such as QBism and Rovelli's relational interpretation) too. Streater's discussion of EPR explains why: https://web.archive.org/web/20151117174141/http://www.mth.kc... Broadly speaking, the CI and its "radical" psi-epistemic* relatives interpret QM as (generalised) probability theory applied to mechanics: https://telescoper.wordpress.com/2017/06/23/the-quantum-mech... It's hardly a cop-out. See e.g.…

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"Space is blue and birds fly through it" — HN submission

"Space is blue and birds fly through it" — mentioned by phayes